L.A.-born artist Riley Holloway succeeds graffiti artist DOSE as the new Artist in Residence at The Fairmont Dallas

On the cover of Arts & Life in our print edition, we recently wrote about the Artist in Residence program at The Fairmont Dallas. That article appears here.

We heard this week that the new Artist in Residence is Riley Holloway, whom the folks at the Fairmont describe as “a local multimedia artist working primarily with oil painting, pen and chalk.”

They add this information: “In addition to working in the Artist in Residence studio Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m., Riley will spend time exploring the hotel for inspiration. He plans to periodically sketch in the Pyramid Bar and on the hotel’s rooftop terrace, which offers views of the surrounding Dallas skyline. Riley will be in residence through June 30th, 2013.”

Born in Los Angeles, Holloway, his hosts say, “relocated to Arlington, Texas, at a young age. Growing up, he developed an early interest in art while coloring and drawing pictures with his mother, herself an artist. In 2007, Holloway attended the Art Institute of Dallas and studied motion graphics. He spent time in Italy studying portrait painting at the Florence Academy of Art, where he trained in oil painting in 2011. As a multimedia artist, Holloway finds creative inspiration through jazz music, poetry and the work of iconic artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Rockwell and Alphonse Mucha.”

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